MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Nicholas Trist and John Slidell
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and Jose Herrera
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Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott
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Ulysses Grant and Stephen Kearney
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Detailed explanation-1: -General Zachary Taylor and General Winfield Scott were the two great heroes of the Mexican-American War and served as Grant’s and Lee’s mentors respectively.
Detailed explanation-2: -These leaders included Robert E. Lee, George Pickett, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and George Meade.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although Scott probably performed with greater skill in the Mexican war, Zachary Taylor emerged the war’s greatest hero. Taylor used his status to win the presidency in 1848–just as Scott had feared. But when Winfield Scott tried to imitate Taylor’s political victory in 1852, he failed.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the Mexican-American War, U.S. forces under General Winfield Scott enter Mexico City and raise the American flag over the Hall of Montezuma, concluding a devastating advance that began with an amphibious landing at Vera Cruz six months earlier.